The Russellville Democrat., 1887-12-07

 tinated at the Treasury Department that there has been an inc tense cf nearly million dollars in the public debt during November.
 TIE Illinois State Board of Agriculture has fixed the dates for holding farmers institutes in the various congressional dis tricts of the State
 A GEsssms--- crank, supposed to be John sss.es..swartz, was arrested at Lima, O., on the list. He raves continually of the Anarch- ists, and says that he will make it hotr for Governor Oglesbv, and Gall men who have blood on their hands will hava troubien
 NoTwITHsTAvpIss the order to the press of Russia not to attack Germany, the newspapers continue to print hostile criti- cisms on the disclosures made regarding the interview between the Czar and Bis marck.
 IN spite of stringent police surveiIance, United Ireland and other Irish papers which print reports of meetings of sup pressed branches of tho League are freely circulated.
 THE following is an epitome of the pub. lie debt statement issued on the 1st: Total debt, principal and interest, Sl ,67s, s,SlG,661 debt, less cash in the treasury, $I ,295, ,44l,- 753; increase of debt during November, $l, ,490, $50; decrease since June 30, 1887, S39, ,245, 6S4: total cash in the treasury, $504, ,550, ,l65.
 THE Comptroller of the Currency, In his annual report, shows that the total num- Der of National banks organized up to the 31st of October was 3,S05, of which 624 have gone into voluntary liquidation, 1l9 have failed, leaving in operation at that date 3,061. Of this number 3,c49 furnished reports of condition at the date of the last call. October 5.
 ON the lst the great Orange diamond found at the Cape of Good Hope, and which is ten carats heavier than the Koh- noor, now in possession of Queen Victoria, was offered for sale at auction in London, but was withdrawn because there were no bidders.
 CONGRESS at the last session doubled the Government appropriation for the militia of the several States, making the amount for the year S400,00o. The result bas been so satisfactory that the larger amount will be continued in tho next ap- propriation bill, if, indeed, there is not further increase.
 TIE Calumet and Hecia mine fires in the Upper Michigan peninsula are not yet ex- tinguished, and there is talk of flooding the mines.
 SURGEONS connected with the railroads centering in St. Joseph, Mo- have or ganized a society for thorough examna- ton of accidents peculiar to railro ads.
 Two THOUSAND Belgian miners are said to be coming over to talSe the place Of the strikers in the Lehigh Valley coal mines, and bloodshed is predicted.
 BRApsTREET's estimates the cotton crop of the country for the current year at 6,4S1, ,000 bales.
 TIE Missouri Pacific railroad made con nection at sunset, on tho evening of the 2d, with the Denver & Rio Grande in Pu- eblo, Col. Traffic is now open.
 MEMBERS of the Austrian Reichsrath who are school-teachers, have been or dered to give up their school duties for the whole period for which they have been el ected to the Reichsrath, on the ground that education and politics should be kept separate.
 A swIxDLER calling himself A. A. Att we'll. of Hoboken, N. Y, has been flooding the West with circulars offering to furnish counterfeit money The Hoboken police decided to hunt the man out, and detect ives were put upon the case. For several days they shadowed the post-ofiice to ar rest the man who might call for Atwell's letters. On the morning of the 2d they caught him "dead to rights"
 THE mail matter sent out daily from the Secretary of the Interior Depart ment's office, amounts to about 3,055 pounds. Of this fifty pounds is tho letter mail, l,590 pounds is matter from the document division, and about the sams amount from the stationery and printing division.
 THE St. Paul Pionccr-Press learns from Rathsay, Minn., of the existence of two cases of leprosy of the most loathsome type, being known so medical men as ele- phantiasis mutelans. They are Norwe- gians and heads of families, one living in Otterfall County and the other in Wilkin County.
 Oy the night of the 2d Samuel Wright was fatally and George Ritter seriously injured by an explosion of natural gas at Farmland, Ind. The two men en- tered a room which Ritter was fitting up for restaurant. A match was struck to light the lamps and an explosion instantly resulted, completely wrecking the build ing. The explosion resulted from leakage of natural gas.